KINDER MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM
Kinder Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT) has been in existence since 1971, and is one of seven mountain rescue teams that operate within the Peak District National Park, as part of the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation (PDMRO).
Our 50 members operate on an purely voluntary basis and are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist members of the public on the hill or in urban search and rescue situations.
We are almost exclusively funded by public donations, and all proceeds from fund raising go towards equipment and resources used on our call outs.
We were called to assist an exhausted walker on the western edge path of Kinder Scout. With only a rough location, both Kinder MRT and Buxton MRT were deployed by the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation (PDMRO) Duty Controller. Shortly afterwards a passing walker was able to assist the exhausted walker and gave us a...
Just 10 minutes after standing down from assisting the walker on the western edge path (callout 43), we received another call for assistance. A father and daughter were in difficulty on the southern edge path at the top of Crowden Brook. As we still had team members at base we were able to deploy swiftly....
We were contacted to assist two walkers on the western edge path of Kinder Scout, after one of them became exhausted and was unable to continue. Their location was provided by W3W but was unconfirmed for some time due to loss of phone signal. Hill parties and SARDA search dogs were deployed to locate and...
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